Costa Rica - Santa Teresa 🇨🇷

Santa Teresa is a small town in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. It is located about 93 miles west of the capital city of San José. Santa Teresa started as a remote fishing village. 

Did you know? Blue zones are geographic regions around the world where people live exceptionally long and healthy lives. The Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica is one of the five original zones.

Nicoya Peninsula 
The blue dot is where we stayed. We
should live a few extra minutes now.

What did we do?

Plenty of Beach Time. Beautiful beach, water was the perfect temperature, and good waves to knock me down. We rented an umbrella 🌂 & chairs.

My Artistic Beach Picture

Watched the Surfers. If we were younger, we would have taken surfing lessons.

Family of 5 taking lessons

We visited the town of Montezuma.

We did not venture in

Variegated Squirrel
Never seen one before

A cool spot back off the 
beach offering some shade

"Swinging Through Life"

Everyone in Santa Teresa comes out to the beach to watch the Sunset.

The infamous green 💚 flash

Wondering what
tomorrow 🤔 will bring

Restaurants / Bars

Shambala, Santa Teresa located on the beach.

Mixed Ceviche

Snapper

Burger 🍔 

We enjoyed the food and the view so we went back another night.

Seafood Casserole

Tataki Tuna
Seared tuna, babaganoush,
shrimp tempura & soy sauce.
What an interesting combination.

We even had entertainment

Maharaja Bhog Authentic Indian Food, Santa Teresa

Chicken Hydrabadi

Curry

Restaurante Montezuma Latino Beach Food, Montezuma

Grandma's Soup

Fish Tacos 🌮 

Our View

Grandma's Soup only made
on Sundays

My loving husband walked up to Restaurante Playa Carmen and ordered us lunch.

Tuna Tartare

What a view

Ceviche

Plantain & Sweet Potato Chips

Katana Asian Cuisine, Santa Teresa

Tuna Nigiri 

Katana & Tuna Wasabi Rolls

Curry

With our room we received free Breakfast.

Serve yourself fruit, cereal, bread,
yogurt

Green juice & fruit

Omelette with ham

Scrambled eggs with ham & 
cheese 🧀 

Pancake & 1 Egg over easy

I think he wanted me to share
my breakfast

Where did we stay?

Hotel Santa Teresa - The hotel and our room was nice. The town itself is very dusty since the main road is unpaved. We believe they will be paving that soon based on feedback from the hotel. We never used the balcony because of noise, dust and exhaust. The staff were great! We couldn't figure out how to get the Nespresso coffee maker to work. Housekeeping came in and clicked a button on the BACK bottom of the coffee maker. Duh. If we ever stay here again, we would book plenty early and book a room that is poolside.

Wasn't much of a balcony 
or a view

 

How did we get there?  Well, we drove and took a ferry. It took us about 6 hours. We had a time constraint as we already purchased our ferry ⛴️ tickets 🎟 for a 2:30 departure and I wanted to make a stop.

I was fascinated by their fences. We
later found out these are called
live fences

The stop I wanted to make was at Crocodile 🐊 Bridge 🌉 😫 😩. It was about an  1 1/2 from our starting point. So glad we were able to make the stop.

No crocs here!

They were all on the other side
of the bridge

Want to go for a swim?

Just catching some rays! 

Off to the ferry! We made such good time we arrived in time to take the 12:30 crossing. We arrived at 12:20 and immediately boarded. Awesome timing!

Air Conditioned

Top Side

Someone even took a nap. He can sleep
anywhere.

Time to continue our
journey

The ferry ride was a little over an hour. It was a good thing we hopped on earlier or we would have arrived at the hotel after dark. You do not want to drive in Costa Rica at night -- too many potholes and curvy roads.

When did we visit?  February 27 - March 4, 2025

According to little Ms. Google, in February, we only traveled 2,730 miles by walking, driving, cruising and flying ✈️. We visited six airports in one month.

"Life takes you down many paths but my favorite ones lead to the beach."